I did take some time recently to create a birthday card for my husband. Let me start by saying, we love playing slot machines! Prior to Covid, we use to go to Vegas at least once a year, sometimes twice. Then Covid hit and we stopped going for obvious reasons. We will get back there eventually (hopefully SOON!). In the meantime, the hubs discovered some local gaming cafes that he likes. So, I decided to create this card for him and give him some extra cash to go spend a few hours in his happy place. Here's the card I made ...
I was inspired from a card I seen on the internet and I tweaked it a little (I'm so sorry to whoever created it, I never copied the name to give credit). The card I seen, had no measurements so I decided on a 5"x7" card, using my Cricut cutting machine. I designed all of the elements in Cricut Design Space by using basic shapes and searching out the images that I wanted to use ...
For the writing, I used Cricut's font BFC Autumn Woodland, and Cricut Gold Metallic marker on the front and Cricut Black marker on the inside. I originally wanted the writing on the front to be silver and use silver foil cardstock for the coins and the word You, but my silver metallic marker wasn't working so I went with the gold.
To save on paper and cutting, I used my Stampin' Up! trimmer to cut the Basic Black cardstock 10"x7". then folded it in half for the card base. I also used the trimmer to cut the Basic Gray cardstock 4.5"x6.5" for the card base front layer. I cut out all of the other pieces with my Cricut.
Aside from the Cricut machine and markers, I used Stampin' Up! cardstock (it's what I always use for all of my paper crafting lol) The colors may look a little off because of photography, but I used the following cardstock ...
Basic Gray
Gray Granite
Basic Black
Basic White
Crushed Curry
Real Red
Gold Foil
I used Tombow multi-purpose liquid glue to attach all of the pieces together, then began putting the card together ...
I created the money bag to put some cash 'in' by creating an offset in Design Space and used a piece of scrap paper to attach it to the back and then to the card. For the coins, I curled the cardstock with the side of a pen, then put a dab of glue on each side to attach the front and back leaving an opening. Then I used a skewer to roll up the money and insert into each coin ...
I used a dab of glue on the back of each coin to attach them all to the inside of the money bag, then attached it to the inside of the card ...
And here's the completed card ...
Since his birthday fell on Fathers Day, and I already had my Cricut out, I decided to make him a couple of t-shirts. He's a truck driver and is constantly complaining about dispatchers, traffic, his job and everything else that's related lol ...
He truly loved the card and t-shirts when I gave them to him! He really wanted to head off to the local gaming cafe immediately, but stayed home and spent a pool day with the family lol.
Well, thank you very much for stopping by today! I hope I was clear in my instructions, but if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask! Leave a comment or send me a message. You can reach all of my links right here ...
until next time!
xoxo
Dawn
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